4+ hour, 23+ min ago   (464+ words) Mortgage frauds keep stacking up across Australia's lending landscape. The news comes off the back of reports this past fall that mortgage fraud was accelerating in Australia's lending market, putting brokers and lenders on alert, and prompting many to take…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (357+ words) This year's Australian Mortgage Awards (AMAs) are fast approaching, and if you haven't locked in your hotel room yet, consider this a friendly warning. The Australian mortgage industry’s biggest night of the year is now less than five weeks away,…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (487+ words) This year is becoming a year of leadership transitions in Australia's broking ecosystem. Boutique lender Bank of Sydney also rearranged its executive leadership team recently when it appointed Sam Tomaras as chief retail banking officer and Hisham Nakkash as chief…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (327+ words) The total value of Australia's residential dwellings has fallen for the first time in nearly four years, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The ABS reported that the value of Australia's dwelling stock dropped $34.1 billion, or…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (409+ words) A new economic outlook from Commonwealth Bank points to one final rate hike this cycle in November, alongside a steeper downgrade to its national home price forecast. The report, which also weighs global growth risks and the Reserve Bank's inflation…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (431+ words) More than one in five new homes approved across Australia in the year to June 2026 were built in areas already grappling with high mortgage stress, according to new OurTop10 Pressure Corridors research. Of the 51 council areas analysed, 38 growth-corridor councils recorded mortgage-stress…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (414+ words) Suncorp Bank has begun writing to its 1.2 million customers, brokers, and aggregators about their move to ANZ, marking the first formal step in a transition that will see all Suncorp Bank accounts, products, and digital platforms shift onto ANZ's systems…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (769+ words) Lenders are looking for creative ways to entice investors back into the market, even as the rules change. It’s a shift that comes as investors face a changing regulatory landscape. This past autumn, the new federal budget sent ripples through…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (427+ words) Borrowers weighing up their next move now have a fresh option to consider, with Police Credit Union rolling out a one-year fixed owner-occupier rate of 5.79% p.a. (6.9% p.a. comparison rate) from 1 September — a rate the lender claims is the lowest of its kind…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (372+ words) Regional Australia has quietly become a $250 billion spending market, according to new CommBank iQ transaction data analysed for Boomtown, disproving long-held assumptions that the country's economic weight sits almost entirely in the capitals. The research, covering the anonymised transactions of…...